Safety cuff-button shirt.



J. PALKENBERG.

SAFETY GUFF BUTTON SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.1Z, 1913.

mman (/m jm@ mon/vers Patented y June -16, 1914,

WITNESSES COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH C0..wASHxNuToN, D, C.

ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB FALKENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N'. Y.

SAFETY CTIEF-:BUTTON SHIRT.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB FALKENBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Safety Cuff-Button Shirt, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to garments and has particular reference to mens shirts of the soft variety.

The primary object of this invention is to avoid the common objection tosoft shirts with respect to the loss of valuable cuff buttons.

The main object, therefore, of the invention is to devise a safety attachment for a soft shirt cuil1 which has constant coperation with the shank of the button and will prevent the loss of the button even though it sho-nld pull loose at one or both ends.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cuff portion of a sleeve showing my improvement; Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the cud?, indicating the relation of the button thereto, and Fig. 3 is a detail showing the safety loop in spaced relation to the cuff portions.

The specific form of the attachment may be varied to a considerable extent, and the application thereof to the cuff may be effected in various ways without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter speciiically claimed.

The drawings illustrate a conventional form of soft shirt cud 10, a portion 10a of which is folded back upon the portion 10b to which the sleeve 11 is secured. These parts of the cuff are provided ordinarily with holes 13 and 13 arranged in pairs, there being two of the holes 13 and 13 in each cuff, and all of the holes, when the cuff is in normal position, being in substantial alinement for the reception of a cuff button B. Ordinarily the cuff button is putin place by passing the base b through all four of the but- Speceation of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 12, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 784,289.

tonholes, beginning with the front or outside hole 13, said base passing thence through the two holes 13 and finally through the inner hole 13. The base of the button is usually smaller than the head for the purpose just stated, and hence there is constant danger of the button dropping from the cuff. In fact, shirts of the type indicated are objected to by many men because of the fear of loss of the buttons. To overcome the objection above referred to I provide a safety loop 14 located between the cuff portions 10"L and 10b and lying normally between the holes 13 and 13. The loop may be made of any suitable material and is secured preferably at one end, to the free edge of one of the parts of the cuff, as sho-wn at 15, so that it can lie between the parts of the cuif, either when the parts are folded, as shown in the drawing, or when the part 10CL is folded inward to lie beneath the part 10b. The loop also is provided with an eye 14 formed by elastic material of which the loop is constructed. The eye, therefore, is normally of a size to allow the base b of the button to pass through under force, and then substantially snugly hug the shank b. It follows, therefore, that even though the button should be put under suflicient strain to cause the base to be withdrawn from place, the button will not be lost because of the engagement between the loop and the shank.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The combination with a soft shirt cuff having one part adapted to fold upon the other and said parts having alined cuff buttonholes, of a safety loop of fiexible material secured at one end to the free edge of one of the cuff parts and lying between said cuff buttonholes, said loop having an eye in alinement with the cuff buttonholes, said eye being formed and bounded by elastic material adapted to snugly embrace the button shank.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB FALKENBERG.

Witnesses:

GEO. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

